Leap To networks and immediately viral In Colombia. A few days ago, the user @villamizar.1999, with all guerrilla for a dissent from the FARC, I spread a video of 38 seconds duration in which the remote controls of a drone were shown, with a screen where the remote images that the killing machine was directed by him were taking. It was the scene of a hunt the man In a coca plantation, and was aimed at two local soldiers, which he launched Pumps before they miraculously escape alive. “My favorite moment is when I have to show you the consequences of their actions“It was the slogan of the recording.
The incident took place in Jamundí, in the Department of Valle del Caucain the east of the Andean country. It was only the visual verification of an arduous reality facing Colombian security forces in their fight against insurgent militias: the intensification of attacks with non -piloted flying devices, a novelty in the long Colombian conflict. So far this year, according to military sources, 73 incidents of these characteristics have taken place, many of them against civilians, both in the border north with Venezuela and in the east.
And with the appearance of these mills, they are rigged accusations against states that would be training Colombian guerrillas in handling this New weapon: Local intelligence sources denounced ‘El Tiempo’, the Colombian reference diary, which Russian contractors and ex -military train from Venezuela “to the dissidents of the FARC and ELN structures in the management and modification of explosive drones.” Immediately, the Russia Embassy In Bogotá he issued a denied statement.
Allegations that, despite Moscow’s rejection, have great likelihood for Ricardo CalderónHead of the Caracol News Research Unit. “There had never been such a great increase in the use of drones in attacks against police, military or even civil units; it is known that Venezuela is the strategic rear for the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Disidences of the FARC, with training fields there; And everyone is known presence of Russia In Venezuela, “he analyzes, in conversation with the newspaper by videoconferencing. The motivation of all this, according to experts, is evident: reinforce insurgent groups on which the tandem Caracas-Mosto have great ancestry and justify before the public opinion eventual concessions of the government before them in a hypothetical peace process.
Russia has demonstrated in recent years that expand your influence In Latin America constitutes a priorityfor counteract diplomatic isolation in the West. And everything seems to indicate that Colombia, which is available to celebrate in 2026 some presidential transcendentals and governed by Gustavo PetroPresident of the Populist left that defends a departure from the United States and the integration into the alternative block of the BRICs led by Russia and China, is at the top of their breakups. “Colombia is at a crossroads; you can go here or there; foreign interference will flourish, it is a scenario in which Russia and China moves well,” he values Sergio GuzmánDirector of Colombia Risk Analysis, specialized consultant in political risks, which recently prepared an exhaustive report on relations between Bogotá and Moscow.
Colombia faces a transcendental electoral year with the intelligence and merited counterintelligence apparatus and the Kremlin propaganda platforms well positioned in Bogotá
However, given this imminent challenge, the capabilities of the Colombian State to counteract the exterior malignant influences They have been seriously committed in the three years of Petro presidency. At the beginning of his mandate, “intelligence officers were relieved Very experiencedformed by foreign agencies (intelligence) and with good relationship with their western colleagues; The exchange of information was very fluid, “says reporter Calderón.
In addition, this expert continues, on the border with Venezuela, “very important for Colombia”, the so -called Border Intelligence Battalionswhich also ended up being dismantled. The result of all this, values the expert, has been a kind of “Unofficial rupture” with Western intelligence agencies, with which a “cordial” relationship But “distrust”, especially when they found that confidential information about terrorism had ended up being filtered to Venezuela.
The high Number of Russian diplomats accredited before the Colombian authorities It constitutes an additional evidence of the broad degree of intelligence activity that is developing the Putin regime in Bogotá: about thirty officials work in the Russian legation, despite the ridiculous level of bilateral trade: the Andean country occupies the 60th position in the list of statements of Russian exports. It was even assigned to Colombia, as a military aggregate, Colonel Dmitri Tarantsov who, according to the local press, had already been expelled from the United States for having interfered in the presidential presidentials of 2016 in which he beat Donald Trump.
Fear of electoral interference
Thus, the possibility that episodes such as those that occurred in the previous one are repeated Presidential electionin which coordinated behaviors of false accounts were verified in the social network Twitter (currently x) in favor of the leftist candidate Petro, and even cyber attacks based in Russia against the National Registry, the institution in charge of the call and organization of the elections, is very high. “The abilities and reasons for Russia to influence our elections are there; I don’t see any reason for it not to happen,” says Guzmán.
To do this, Russia will have a well positioned propaganda device. RT contents in Spanish, television vetoed in the EU and the US, are present in media as an institutional channel or Colombia signal, radio television dependent of Colombia. To this will be added, in Calderón’s opinion, media platformss described by experts such as “white brands of RT”, in addition to advice and activism in networks of certain politicians linked to Petro, including the Spaniards Xavier Vendrell or Pablo Iglesias. The former leader of Podel Petro’s political project“He concludes.
Hollman Morris interview, manager of the Colombian television radio, to the Russian propaganda chain RT. / Redacción
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